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Back-of-cab CNG fuel system on a Freightliner Cascadia tractor was shown by Agility at ACT Expo 2016.

“Real estate on a chassis is always at a premium,” says Bob Carrick of Freightliner, who told F&F at ACT Expo 2016 that his company is working with Agility Fuel Systems to position the compressed air tanks used for big rig brakes in the extra space available in compressed natural gas fuel system cabinets.

Agility is the exclusive supplier of CNG fuel systems to Freightliner, furnishing hardware from its new plant in Salisbury, N.C., which is in close proximity to the Freightliner manufacturing plants in Cleveland, N.C., and Mt. Holly, N.C.

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The Green Truck Association – an affiliate division of NTEA – is stepping up promotion of the Green Truck Summit, with takes place in conjunction with the NTEA Work Truck Show this coming March at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.

The Green Truck Summit runs March 1-3 while the Work Truck Show itself takes place March 2-4.

The Green Truck Summit runs March 1-3 in conjunction with the NTEA Work Truck Show March 2-4 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.

“The upcoming Green Truck Summit is set to deliver the latest on clean energy innovations for commercial vehicles,” NTEA managing director Doyle Sumrall says in a the association’s recent registration announcement. “It’s a pivotal time in the work truck industry as we advance technology and government regulations gain momentum.”

New for 2016, he notes, is an expanded curriculum uniting Green Truck Summit and Work Truck Show concurrent sessions, with topics including

Daimler Trucks North America is celebrating the production of its 3,000,000th vehicle, marking the milestone with delivery of a Freightliner Cascadia Evolution – diesel-fueled with a Detroit Diesel DD15 engine – at DTNA’s factory in Cleveland, N.C.Read More >>

Minnesota Bulk Hauler Is Starting Out with Two CNG Cascadias,‘Every Customer Wants to Know What’s Going on with Natural Gas’

Rosemount, Minn.-based Bay & Bay Transportation is talking up deployment last month of two new Freightliner tractors with the new 11.9-liter ISX12 G engine from Cummins Westport. Company president Sam Anderson says that 10% to 20% of his 500-truck fleet may eventually be natural gas-fueled. updated March 17Read More >>

Penske Truck Leasing now has some 200 compressed natural gas trucks on offer for rental or longer term lease throughout all five of its U.S. regions. The vehicles are Cummins Westport-powered Freightliners: a mix of M2s with 8.9-liter ISL G engines and Cascadia tractors with 11.9-liter ISX12 G engines.

The Cascadia tractors for rental, for example, have a 40-diesel-gallon-equivalent rail-mounted tank and a back-of-cab assembly holding an additional 75 GG for a total of 115 DGEs, says fuels and environmental affairs VP Drew Cullen.

“For lease customers we spec it for whatever their needs are,” he told F&F.

Within its five regions, Penske is positioning the rental trucks “where the density of fueling infrastructure is sufficient,” he adds.

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Con-way Freight, which has a network of more than 300 service centers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico, has added a pair of Freightliner Cascadia 113 natural gas-powered tractors to its fleet. They are the first off the Freightliner production line in South Carolina with factory-installed CNG fuel cylinder assemblies.Read More >>

Freightliner and Saddle Creek Transportation are talking up CNG-fueled Cascadia 113 tractors with a new fuel tank assembly that’s expected to yield true 700-mile range and, with lower costs because of fewer tanks, an ROI as low as three years.Read More >>

Kenworth Fleet to Be Augmented, Macks & CNG in New Plan
‘Every Tractor We Buy for Domestic Ops Will Be Natural Gas’

UPS is adding even more natural gas vehicles to its existing fleet of 112 LNG tractors, augmenting recently announced plans for some 700 new LNG trucks with word that it would add 250 more, plus 35 fueled by CNG – all part of an additional $75 million for natural gas transportation to be invested by the end of 2014.Read More >>

Pennsylvania-based Modern Transportation reports the deployment on April 18 of the first production trucks to be powered by the new 11.9-liter, dedicated-natural gas, spark-ignition ISX12 G engine by Cummins Westport. The new Freightliner Cascadia day cab vehicles will supply an Owens Corning roofing plant in Savannah with materials from Sanford, N.C.Read More >>

The term “green fleet” will become just “fleet” over the next decade as sustainability becomes business as usual. “Sustainability and the green industry are here to stay,” says Lee Styslinger III, chairman and CEO of aerial lift specialist Altec.Read More >>

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay is adding 12 new long-haul CNG trucks to its fleet in Beloit, Wisc., to distribute product across the upper Midwest (Wisconsin, Illinois, and parts of Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota).Read More >>